Archive for the ‘Relocating’ Category

The clock went up only to come smashing down a few minutes later (Papi managing to rescue Raffy just in the nick of time).

And the hole in the mask arrangement wasn’t by design. The mask Mum bought on her first trip to Chaco smashed (it was already a little dinged up from the bus crash Mum and Papi were in on that trip) and a little later the monkey fell and broke his earring. I think we’re going to have to rethink our hanging strategy.

Mum’s gone to pour herself a glass of wine as we speak. I think she’s over moving.

But we’re not connected until the middle of next week. The company we chose for our communications and alarm were supposed to come yesterday but when we rang them to find out why they missed their installation window they informed us that they weren’t wired up for our area until the 1st of March! Whilst they offered us all sorts of deals to keep us as a customer, just starting in a months time, we rang their competitor who is already wired and we only need to wait for a technician to come out. Needless to say, the blog might be a bit sporadic until sometime next week.

The big truck delivered all our toys and other essentials today. What a whirlwind our first 19 days in Houston have been to make this happen so quickly!

And tonight we packed up and cleaned the temporary apartment in preparation to vacate tomorrow morning. We’ve certainly got that routine down pat now. The last pack and clean for a long while… we hope!

For the second time since we’ve been at school here (only 7 days) it’s been cancelled due to hazardous weather. But unlike last time, today Mum and Papi had meetings the entire day. The morning was filled with the builder’s home demonstration.

Houston wasn’t as iced over as it was the other day, but it did snow a little bit. We ate our snack in front of the fire.

And eventually managed to get some games up on the iPad.

Then in the afternoon we had to go and sign all the paperwork for closing. We were still well behaved at this point (when the photo was taken) but it did deteriorate as the waiting got longer. I think we’re going to be sent to bed early tonight. Boo hoo. We were just so sick of being inside doing boring grown up stuff all day.

After dinner and after our bath we got loaded up into the car in our PJs to go and pick up the Audi from the big shopping parking lot up the road. He couldn’t drop it off to us directly because the car transporter couldn’t fit into our street!

He had to use 10 car park spaces to park. It was exciting to watch our car come off. We asked the driver if we could swap ours for the Q7, since that one was easier to get off and all, but he said no.